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Giant Crabs Colonize Rome's Ancient Ruins
Italy Magazine/ANSA ^ | 10-28-2005

Posted on 10/28/2005 3:29:13 PM PDT by blam

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1 posted on 10/28/2005 3:29:13 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Rome has crabs?


2 posted on 10/28/2005 3:30:14 PM PDT by RichInOC (...oops, did I say that out loud?)
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To: blam

Not crab people again!


3 posted on 10/28/2005 3:30:17 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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Figures...??...oh you meant that kind of crabs


Doogle


4 posted on 10/28/2005 3:30:24 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF...7thAF ..4077th TFW...408th MMS..Ubon Thailand.."69",,Night Line Delivery..AMMO)
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To: blam
Are they edible?
5 posted on 10/28/2005 3:30:48 PM PDT by Redcloak (We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singin' "whiskey for my men and beer for my horses!")
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To: SunkenCiv; Shermy
GGG Ping.

Thanks to Shermy for the article.

6 posted on 10/28/2005 3:30:53 PM PDT by blam
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To: mainepatsfan

Crab People !

7 posted on 10/28/2005 3:32:46 PM PDT by peyton randolph (Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
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To: Redcloak

Got butter?


8 posted on 10/28/2005 3:33:17 PM PDT by Dog
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re: “This isolated urban population of crustaceans is giving clear signs of having taken its own evolutionary course,” said Danilo Mainardi, a professor of behavioural ecology at Venice university.--------Zoologists say the new crab colony in the heart of Rome could turn out to be important for the conservation of the species, which risks dying out in rural waterways....

I guess a non-evo like me is about the only person to notice the contradiction here.

First, they claim to see the arrival of a new species. Then the praise the circumstances that appear to preserve a species unchanged.

9 posted on 10/28/2005 3:36:31 PM PDT by Mamzelle (.)
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They also say it fits into a more general phenomenon of cities, with their special ecosystems, providing many species of animals with new, but acceptable, habitats.

Like 'possums and raccoons in suburban garbage cans.

10 posted on 10/28/2005 3:37:29 PM PDT by caryatid (There are none so blind as those who will not see ...)
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A new species? Or just a river crab with street smarts.


11 posted on 10/28/2005 3:38:59 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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Nice twist!


12 posted on 10/28/2005 3:41:47 PM PDT by Americanwolf (Support the Minutemen Civil Defense Corp...Doing the Job our government won't !)
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To: Dog
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To heck with butter.

13 posted on 10/28/2005 3:42:12 PM PDT by WideGlide (That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
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To: blam

I know a few Romans who are overgrown and REAL crabby.

:^)


14 posted on 10/28/2005 3:44:11 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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15 posted on 10/28/2005 3:52:57 PM PDT by Wiggins
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Giant crabs.

Isn't that what is shown in Pompeii's "forbidden frescoes"?
16 posted on 10/28/2005 3:53:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: peyton randolph

They did cause the Beavertown flood as well.


17 posted on 10/28/2005 3:55:36 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: EveningStar

ping. Crab people. Crab people.


18 posted on 10/28/2005 3:58:59 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: mainepatsfan
They did cause the Beavertown flood as well.

Dang. I was blaming that on global warming. :-)

19 posted on 10/28/2005 4:00:17 PM PDT by peyton randolph (Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
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Given the lifestyles of ancient romans I'm sure many of them had crabs.


20 posted on 10/28/2005 4:03:13 PM PDT by Mrs. Shawnlaw (Rock beats scissors, don't run with rocks. NRA)
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